For young people, the job search has never been so miserable
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#3> pages and pages of jobs, most requiring at least three, even five, years of experience.
> recent graduate with a degree in cyber security
College is the problem! It should provide job relevant skills and education! Instead students are forced to study irrelevant garbage.
If this guy studied himself, he would save money, and had a few years of relevant experience by now.
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#4And now imagine how it's for old people changing careers.
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#5Is it actually worse compared to post 2008?
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#6‘Never’ is a long time. There were far worse times in (recent) history, but currently I see many companies rather hiring no one than a graduate/junior. At least in my field (which is common here; saas dev, fullstack), I have too pick between paying a graduate a very large amount of $, much to close to a medior or even senior, to skip over them. I would love to hire someone like me when I was a graduate: I didn’t have much costs so I worked for very little and was eager so I worked hard and tried to soak up everything. It seems these are different times and as a small company, I simply cannot take the risk for the salaries people are asking with zippo experience.
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#7Is it actually worse compared to post 2008?
Definitely not
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#8And now imagine how it's for old people changing careers.
A friend of mine is trying to change careers to software development at 42 after being a musician his whole life. He's a smart guy but it's going to be a rough road.
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#9And now imagine how it's for old people changing careers.
Yeah, better don’t. Some of my 50+ (which I am too) are basically suicidal after being let go or after quitting during covid or taking the wrong bet starting a company before covid. The number of burn outs because of job hunting is staggering when I look around.
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#10> pages and pages of jobs, most requiring at least three, even five, years of experience. > recent graduate with a degree in cyber security College is the problem! It should provide job relevant skills and education! Instead students are forced to study irrelevant garbage. If this guy studied himself, he would save money, and had a few years of relevant experience by now.
If years of experience count only from performing similar job, and there are no entry level positions available, there is no way get that initial experience.